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12:50 Nov 13, 2017 |
Arabic to English translations [PRO] Social Sciences - Economics | |||||||
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| Selected response from: Morano El-Kholy Egypt Local time: 11:17 | ||||||
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5 | existence of life |
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4 +1 | Life/ essence of life |
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4 | life order |
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4 | Life entity. |
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existence of life Explanation: .... ........ . |
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Life/ essence of life Explanation: My advice is to prioritise readability and natural-sounding target text. To me, it seems that the writer simply meant to say "in life", and that would make a lot more sense to the reader than going for a literal translation. That's certainly what I would do. An alternative may be "essence of life". |
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life order Explanation: -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day15 hrs (2017-11-15 04:22:37 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Entity of life is a good option too. |
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Life entity. Explanation: والله أعلم -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 1 day 16 hrs (2017-11-15 05:09:03 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Dear Colleague, kindly check my above answer. It's "Life entity". I also like "Life per se". But I do not favor or see it possible to adopt the third option: "italicising the word 'life' for emphasis and leaving the word 'kiyan' untranslated". My regards. |
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